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The following books from the Library's collections examine the history of the Emancipation Proclamation. The bibliography contains a selection of books for both general readers and for younger readers. Each item links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.
Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 by 
Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War by 
Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory by 
The Emancipation Proclamation by 
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic) by 
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by 
Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War by 
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by 
Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment by 
Redeeming the Great Emancipator by 
The Emancipation Proclamation by 
The Emancipation Proclamation by 
Emancipation Proclamation by 
The Emancipation Proclamation: Abolishing Slavery in the South by 
The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by 
The Emancipation Proclamation and the End of Slavery in America by 
Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation in American History by 
